Migraine Aura

This is what I see when I get a migraine. I should mention that this depicts a best case scenario in which I take an Almotriptan pill and I am functional again in an hour.

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Education

Tags:

• migraine
• aura
• flashing
• lights
• visual

[HelloImStanky]

Excision sent me. kbye.

[Zlog0nje]

Shambhala CMON

[elbereth129]

@wassupdoc319 oh same here

[elbereth129]

am i the only one that doesn't see many colors in the affected area?

to me it's more like photoshop's "spatter" effect or something. Not multicolored though.

and sometimes it appears in many different spots  blending with the non affected area giving you some kind of "light headed" feeling. and that something's messing with your brain :P

[dana89511]

This is exactly what I've been looking for! I always try to explain to others what the migraine aura looks like! A few years ago I had my first migraine. All of a sudden I realized sparkling, spinning, multi-colored, diamond like things from the corner of my eye. I thought that maybe someone took a picture with the flash on and I didn't realize it. I was in high school at the time and had a test the next period. The aura started to cover all of my vision but I continued to take the test. After

[YThorr]

@present10s Ah, you know that makes sense! I had one of these after I spent the whole day eating NOTHING but bread and chocolate biscuits (and staring into my computer screen).

[RexxMasterz]

So it was this afterall..

I thought my eyes got probs -___-

[JohannaMarie125]

omg that is the worst i just had the aura a few minutes ago(felt like hrs ) that part went away now i just have a pounding headache :(

[goatmurray]

I am so glad I have this so I don't have to try to explain it to people.

[burndog65can]

i went two years without having one and then since the beging of october ive had about 6 X(

[psyborg303]

mine are more orange and blue

[mosesport]

EXCISIONNNNN!!!! THE NEW MIX IS SO SICK!!!